Topic: removing all users

[magwm]

Goodday!

I am seriously screwing up user and groups installation.. is there a way to clean up ALL USERS AND GROUPS ? without deleting the standard users necessary for the installed software (wikis, ibays, etc.. )

btw what are the linux commands to see the complete list of users and groups?

thanks, Michel

[jfarschman]

Geday Mag,

  I'd recommend the Lazy Admin Tools or LAT.  I believe you will need to load these on your system as they are not there by default, but once in place here is what you do.

lat-dump -d /root/

This will make a set of files including one with all your users in it.  It will be named something like servername.Users

Then do a

lat-users -d /path/to/servername.Users

One by one it will remove the users and a clean fashion.  Similar work can be done with the servername.Groups files.

Where do you get this wonderful tool.  Check the contribs.  It should be one of the most popular tools.

[magwm]

Yes, I think it was my poor knowledge of users and groups that made me screw up WITH LAT... so now I have bits pieces everywhere and hand-edited /etc/groups and /etc/passwd.. and a lot of "cannot delete user.. " in var/log/messages..

[magwm]

see this post.. I think it resolves many things..


http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=38086.0